The temperature on February 10, 1865 was about -5.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 31 » American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
June 28 » The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
July 31 » The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
October 11 » Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
Day of marriage August 28, 1890
The temperature on August 28, 1890 was about 12.3 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
March 20 » Prime Minister of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
July 1 » Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
August 7 » Anna Månsdotter became the last woman to be executed in Sweden for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
October 12 » Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
November 23 » King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
Day of death April 2, 1959
The temperature on April 2, 1959 was between 6.8 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 9 » The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
March 9 » The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
July 29 » First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
September 25 » Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
September 26 » Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
October 21 » In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.
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